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from eye; anteclypeus parallel margined, apex attaining or exceeding 

 gena slightly; postclypeal sutures cm-ved mesally above antennal pits; 

 pronotum three times as long as vertex; hind femoral chaetotaxy 

 2-1-1 ; female with posterior margin of abdominal sternum VII irregu- 

 larly truncate or shghtly convex posteriorly, with or without a small 

 median projection, with a heavily sclerotized band across posterior 

 margin. 



Male pygofer not heavily setose; plates slender; triangular; con- 

 nective expanded apically and truncate, approximately equal in length 



Figure 23. — B. neglecta: a-c, aedeagus, lateral view; d, style and connective, dorsal view; 

 e, valve and plate, ventral view;/, male pygofer, lateral view; g, female abdominal sternum 

 VII, ventral view. 



to style, stem slightly longer than arms which diverge at approximately 

 45 degrees; style with preapical lobe rounded, apical extension only 

 shghtly curved and rounded apically; aedeagus -with preatrium con- 

 spicuous, curved ventrally only slightly if at all, shaft with apical 

 two-thirds curved dorsally. 



Color light brown ; face with or without oblique brown lines on each 

 side of midline; pronotum commonly with brown longitudinal hues; 

 thoracic venter dark; scutellum commonly with faint orange areas; 

 forewings hyaUne to subhyaline, usually with a tan tint; abdominal 

 dorsum dark. 



The male holotj^e from Mount Manitou, Mont., is in the DeLong 

 collection and has been examined. This is a mdespread species, and 

 specimens have been examined from Arizona, California, Colorado, 

 Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, 



